Marcus Strom is a Fairfax Media journalist
In 1991, as a callow youth, I sat in the Alice Springs police station giving a statement after a man had detained me in my own home, punched me repeatedly and held a knife to me threatening to kill me unless I drove him home.
Every year people rail against private health insurance companies hiking up their premiums. Not me - I couldn't care less.
The official republican movement in Australia is kidding itself if it thinks there will be an outpouring of sentiment to remove the monarchy when Queen Elizabeth dies.
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